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redleghunter:

With respect to Luke 24:28-35, he is St. Thomas Aquinas’s Patristic Commentary of Luke, which takes the Church Fathers and their commentaries on that passage. The commentary is detailed and their are numerous linkages to the Breaking of the Bread to the Sacrament of the Eucharist

http://www.veritasbible.com/commentary/catena-aurea/Luke_24:25-35

In Saint John’s Gospel, we see another account of Christ Breaking Bread and his revelation being made in the context of “Breaking Bread” [John 21:14]. Again, from Saint Thomas Aquinas Patristic Commentary on the St. John’s Gospel, there are again linkages of this Gospel account to the Sacrament of the Eucharist

http://www.veritasbible.com/commentary/catena-aurea/John_21:12-14

So to say that there is no connection to the Eucharist and “Breaking of the Bread” is not correct, at least from the Catholic Theological Tradition which uses the Theological writings and biblical commentaries from the Fathers to help it confirm, define, and defend “Doctrine”

I think a clear reading of all of these commentaries of the Fathers, which were brought together in Aquinas’s Commentary of the Gospels does show a consistent biblical exegetical tradition of these passages having some connection to the Sacrament of Christ Body and Blood [Eucharist]

As you said there is some connection. That would be “bread” and “breaking” being the only connection.

Is there a reason the priest is the only congregant who breaks the bread? It also took many years before the cup was offered to the laity in mass.